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room for the Society and its library in a large room of the Supreme Court.
During the year we suffered the loss of our very efficient Hon. Secretary Miss Michaeliones who was transferred to the British Council at Leeds and also of our Hon. Treasurer Mr. Lanchester of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. We have, however, been fortunate in having as Hon. Secretary Mr. T. H. Thomas of the British Council and as Hon. Treasurer Mr. D. A. Gilkes, a Chartered Accountant on the administrative staff of the Chinese University and we are deeply grateful to them for undertaking a task which occupies so much of their time and labour and those of their staff.
I cannot conclude without expressing again our deep appreciation of the support and assistance given to the Society by the British Council and its staff. The Society's early meetings were held in its library; the Council of the Society holds all its meetings in its office; it has provided us with three successive Hon. Secretaries who with their staff, and in particular the indispensable Mrs. O'Hara, have been a tower of strength on which we have relied from the days when the Hong Kong Branch was re-established in 1959.
8 April, 1968
J. R. JONES
Lectures in 1967 comprised: -
16 January
Major Michael Banks, R.M.
A Wall of Snow: Exploration and Mountaineering in the Himalayas, Arctic Greenland, Alaska and the Yukon.
13 February
Mr. Chuang C. Shen
"Early Chinese Buddhist Paintings in Tunhuang."
6 March
Professor J. R. Levenson
'A Dialectical View of Confucius.
1 April
Visit to Places of Interest on Hong Kong Island.
3 April
Annual General Meeting.
17 May
Mr. Hugh Gibb
Three films on Angkor and one on "The People of the Great Lake."